It is down to two, folks: Jordin and Blake are this year’s Kelly and Justin over at American Idol.   

Many are still reeling from last week’s shocking departure of Melinda Doolittle — a truly gifted singer that may felt was a shoe-in for this year’s Idol.   Some are doing more than that — several bloggers (including Gossip Galore and Media Take Out) are saying that over at the Howard Stern Show, they’re calling the show rigged with producers, not the voters, picking who stays and who goes …. It’s said to be an official “expose.”

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This weekend, Sheryl Crow announced on her website that she has adopted a newborn baby boy, naming him Wyatt Steven.   As we all know, she’s joined the club with Madonna, Meg Ryan, and Angelina Jolie as celebrity single moms. 

One big difference, though: Sheryl adopted a child from the UNITED STATES.  Madonna’s son is from Malawi, Angelina adopted (while single) from Cambodia, Meg Ryan from China.   Of course, lots of arguments will probably flow for and against Sheryl Crow’s domestic adoption … as well as the whole celebrity-adoption-as-publicity argument.  (For fodder on that, check out the latest interview of Angelina Jolie in Reader’s Digest – it’s free, online.) 

Legally, is there a big difference?  There can be.  It can cost more in time and money to adopt through an overseas agency.  People can pay tens of thousands of dollars in fees, travel expenses, agency expenses, and the like.    Continue Reading »

Paris Hilton remains in the news, and one of the top web searches of the day.  She’s rehired her publicist, she’s filing an appeal, she’s asked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon.  Even her mother got media play as she told reporters “this [sentence] is a joke” and “a waste of taxpayer money.”  And on Paris’ MySpace page, Paris is asking people to sign her petition because she “provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.” 

Paris fans have launched www.freeparis.org – where you can sign a petition asking she be freed, along with buying tee shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, and the like.  There have been over 6 Million visits to Paris’ MySpace page, and her fans have also started their own MySpace site, FreeParisNow.   There’s a rally in New York on Thursday.

Then, there is the Anti-Paris movement.  Gawker’s “Don’t Free Paris” tee shirts are on back order.  Citizens for a Better America have their Go Away Paris site, also with merchandise.  (They even have a theme song.)  And, celebrities are starting to criticize Paris – Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York among them.

And guess what?  This ALL HELPS PARIS.  Every last bit of it.  Every last “Go Away Paris” web click helps Paris Hilton.  Yes, it does — and here’s why.  Continue Reading »

Paris Hilton tells TMZ.COM that she feels she’s been treated unfairly, and there are reports that her attorneys are already in the process of appealling her 45-day jail sentence, issued on Friday.  Meanwhile, Paris has fired her publicist and claims he told her it was okay to drive with suspended license for “work reasons.” 

Well, in Louisiana, she’d be right if she’s applied for, and got, a “hardship license.”  What would happen to you (or Paris) here, if you got caught driving with a suspended license? Continue Reading »